Alexander Kristoff wins stage fifteen of the 2014 Tour de France
Alexander Kristoff (Katusha) won his second stage of the 2014 Tour de France, after the break of the day was heart-breakingly caught just metres from the finish line.
Up until the final few seconds it looked as though Jack Bauer (Garmin-Sharp), one of the two riders in the day’s break, was going to win the stage, but with about 30 metres to go an onrushing peloton finally caught the distraught New Zealander.
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